Spring's off for another week: Monday temperatures will feel like -9, with snow forecast

12:18pm Friday 8th March 2013 in News

Spring's off for another week: Monday temperatures will feel like -9, with snow forecast Spring's off for another week: Monday temperatures will feel like -9, with snow forecast

Spring will seem like a distant prospect this weekend as a wave of freezing weather and snow sweeps in.

A weather warning for snow has been issued, and temperatures of below freezing are forecast for Monday, with experts saying it will feel like -9C during the day as winds gust to up to 50mph.

The weather warning says: A spell of sleet and snow is expected, starting on Sunday evening in SW England, and affecting southern England more widely on Sunday night and Monday morning.

Snow will be accompanied by a strong easterly wind which will accentuate the very cold feel.  Accumulations of 3 - 5 cm could occur quite widely over southern counties, and the public are advised to be aware of this wintry hazard.

Tuesday's forecast temperatures are even lower, down to -10C. 

 

Comments(13)

Baywolf says...
12:33pm Fri 8 Mar 13

So no schools then or transport before even the first flake has fallen.

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mmmmmmm says...
12:51pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Could it be climate change,shirley not.

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Howlin Wolf says...
1:08pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Even now I can hear the sounds of laptops popping open where Dorset Headmasters' begin to compose their 'School Closed due to possible bad weather' memos.

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The Renegade Master says...
1:38pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Right so we have a warning of possible severe weather for Monday & Tuesday. In which case the local authorities have plenty of time to make sure all the roads are well gritted, along with pavements etc around schools so there can be no excuse for them to be closed or for people to take a day off work due to dodgy roads. They cope with this sort of thing in the rest of Europe so why not here?

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Hessenford says...
2:39pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Global warming, climate change, I think we will all freeze of drown before burning to death.

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Hessenford says...
3:04pm Fri 8 Mar 13

The Renegade Master wrote:
Right so we have a warning of possible severe weather for Monday & Tuesday. In which case the local authorities have plenty of time to make sure all the roads are well gritted, along with pavements etc around schools so there can be no excuse for them to be closed or for people to take a day off work due to dodgy roads. They cope with this sort of thing in the rest of Europe so why not here?
In the real world yes, but this country is hopeless when bad weather strikes.

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chrisii1991 says...
3:54pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Hang on,i thought it was march isn't that meant to be the start of spring? or do we have constant winter all year round now|?

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Hessenford says...
3:59pm Fri 8 Mar 13

chrisii1991 wrote:
Hang on,i thought it was march isn't that meant to be the start of spring? or do we have constant winter all year round now|?
Global warming and climate change is finished, people realise it for the con trick it is, next we will all be told of the next phase, global colding.

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shy talk says...
5:00pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Feel a panic buy for food, at my local supermarket coming on !!!!

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awsokend says...
6:43pm Fri 8 Mar 13

I haven't been out this year I've been hibernating
First on my shopping list is
50 each of

cocoa
tins of soup
rice puddings
baked beans..Lidl
pot noodles..150 pots... poundland
100 bars chocolate...tesco value

Stocking up for the next freeze
starting august bank holiday.

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ol'bag lady says...
7:30pm Fri 8 Mar 13

awsokend wrote:
I haven't been out this year I've been hibernating
First on my shopping list is
50 each of

cocoa
tins of soup
rice puddings
baked beans..Lidl
pot noodles..150 pots... poundland
100 bars chocolate...tesco value

Stocking up for the next freeze
starting august bank holiday.
Lidl chocolate down to .49p - hurry!

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spooki says...
8:39am Sat 9 Mar 13

I'll beleive it when I look out of my window at my extensive meteorological equipment. If the rock is white, its snowing. If the rock is wet, it's rainy. If I can't see the rock, it's foggy. You get the idea.

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apm1954 says...
9:23am Sat 9 Mar 13

i am off down the shops to stock pile food etc , aint seen a gritter yet what sort of council have we got .

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